[BOAI] Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies e-forum – 7-18 September 2015

[Imma Subirats]

Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on
our Societies
e-forum - 7th to 18th of September 2015

More information: http://bit.ly/1IfwrU6

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) [1], the
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
(IFLA) [2] and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations [3] are organizing an e-forum on "Sustainable Development
Goals: The Impact of Access to Information on our Societies" which
will take place from 7th to 18th of September 2015.

The objective of this online event is to provide a forum to discuss
how information centers and libraries can promote the adoption of
access to information as part of the post-2015 agenda through the UN’s
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [4]. The Lyon Declaration [5], an
advocacy document being used to influence the content of the UN
post-2015 development agenda, will play a key role in this discussion.

The event will offer webcasts by experts to provide important
background information for participants and to help stimulate dialogue
around three main questions:

1.- What are the ways that access to information (and more narrowly
open access) contributes to sustainable development? Please elaborate
in case studies and examples if possible.

2.- How can libraries and information centres promote the adoption of
access to information as part of the "post-2015 agenda, in particular
SDGs"? Have you considered contacting your relevant Ministries to
ensure that access to information, open access, and information
providers (such as libraries and information centres) are reflected in
the National Development plans?

3.- What can we do collectively - for example, through COAR, FAO and
IFLA- to raise awareness of open access and access to information in
the context of SDG discussion?

Please join and participate to this e-forum!

== Target users ==

The e-forum is aimed at information professionals in general. Any
person related to access to information, libraries, information
centers is invited and encouraged to participate in the forum.

== Dates ==

The e-forum on "Sustainable Development Goals: The Impact of Access to
Information on our Societies" will take place from 7th to 18th of
September 2015.

== Webinars ==

During the e-forum, webinars will take place to support the
discussions. Announcements will be distributed one week before each
webinar. The first webinar will take place on the 6th of September at
11:00 with the title "Libraries, The Lyon Declaration, and the Road to
2030” by Stuart Hamilton, Deputy Secretary General, Director, Policy &
Advocacy at the International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA).

== How to join ==

The e-forum is open to anyone and places are not limited. If you are
interested in participating in this online event, please fill in the
form at https://dgroups.org/fao/ciard-econsultation/sdgs-impact-access-information-societies/join.

If you have any questions or clarifications, please contact us at AIMS at fao.org


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[1] https://www.coar-repositories.org/
[2] http://www.ifla.org/
[3] http://www.fao.org/
[4] https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgsproposal
[5] http://www.lyondeclaration.org/signatories/

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Imma Subirats-Coll
e-LIS co-Founder & Chief Executive
http://eprints.rclis.org/
http://openlib.org/home/subirats/
imma.subirats at gmail.com

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